VIP visit the new masters of the Crimea!: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Simferopol. He wants to promote the integration of the peninsula in the Russian Federation – and they expand to a special economic zone.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived with a large delegation to an unannounced visit to the Crimea Black Sea peninsula. Medvedev is the highest-ranking politicians of the Russian government, who visited the Crimea since the internationally unrecognized accession to Russia, reports the Interfax news agency.

” Simferopol ” Medvedev wrote on the short message service Twitter. ” Here to discuss the development in the Crimea The government meets. ”
The Crimea was to be developed into a special economic zone , Medvedev said during the visit. To attract investors, it should also give tax breaks. Therefore, the confidante of

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin with the pro-Moscow leadership in Simferopol wanted conversations about further integration of the region into Russian structures , it said. Medvedev was recently in September 2012 at the international law pertaining to Ukraine Crimea.

The first Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu government representatives had traveled early last week to the Crimea , to get an idea of the military facilities on site. Russia had the Ukrainian republic in mid-March despite international protests annexed after the population had spoken in a controversial referendum majority for accession.

On the night of Monday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart, John Kerry met in Paris for a four-hour conversation about the Crimean crisis. Kerry stressed then that there would be “no decision about Ukraine without Ukraine”. The government in Kiev and Ukraine’s population would have to be included.

Lavrov confirmed Russia would respect the right of Ukraine to territorial integrity. However, the Ukraine could not function as a unified state, but could choose as a loose federation of regions, their own economic models as well as language and religion. This proposal had the Ukrainian transitional government back immediately.